1770 in music

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Events

The "Concert des Amateurs" is founded by François-Joseph Gossec.
Madame Stuart
.
Musikalisches Vielerley is published; a collection of pieces from various composers, edited by CPE Bach. (Hamburg: Michael Christian Bock)

Classical music

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Fantasia in D minor, H.224
Johann Christian Bach
- 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 7
- 6 Quartets, Op. 8
Luigi Boccherini – Cello Concerto in D major, G.479
Joseph Haydn – Baryton Trio in A major, Hob.XI:2
Gabriele Leone – Six sonatas for mandolin and bass marked with signs according to the new method, Op. 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony 11
Pietro Nardini – Sonatas for 2 Flutes/Violins and Basso Continuo

Methods and theory writings

Johann Caspar Heck – The Art of Playing the Harpsichord
John Holden – An Essay Towards a Rational System of Music

Operas

Christoph Willibald Gluck – Paride ed Elena, Wq.39

Published popular music

William Billings – The New England Psalm Singer, featuring the song Chester.

Births

February 18 – Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer (died 1846)
February 20 – Ferdinando Carulli, composer (died 1841)^[1]
Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer^[2] (died 1839
)

Antoine Reicha, composer (died 1836
)

May 19 – Antoine-Charles Glachant, violinist and composer (died 1851)
June 4 – James Hewitt, composer (died 1827)
November 8 – Friedrich Witt, composer^[3] (died 1836)
November 29 – Peter Hänsel, composer^[4]
John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer (died 1836)^[5]

December 15 or December 16 (baptized on December 17) – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer and pianist (died 1827)^[6]
December 17 – Johann Friedrich Schubert, composer

Deaths

February 26 – Giuseppe Tartini, violinist and composer, 77
April 19 – Esprit Antoine Blanchard, composer, 74
May 9 – Charles Avison, composer, 61^[7]
October 1 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer, 64
December 9 – Gottlieb Muffat, organist and composer, 80^[8]
December 13 – Johann Heinrich Hartmann Bätz, organ-builder, 61

References

ISBN 978-0-89898-572-6
.

Don Randel
, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, Harvard, 1996, p. 952.
ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6
.

^ Eduard Bernsdorf (1857). Neues Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst ... Unter Mitwirkung von Frz. Liszt, H. Marschner ... Robert Schäfer. p. 298.

ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2
.

^ "When is Beethoven's birthday?". Classic FM. Retrieved 2022-03-22.

ISBN 978-0-8093-0517-9
.

ISBN 978-0-19-816637-5
.

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[1] ISBN 978-0-89898-572-6
.

[2] Don Randel
, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, Harvard, 1996, p. 952.

[3] ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6
.

[4] Eduard Bernsdorf (1857). Neues Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst ... Unter Mitwirkung von Frz. Liszt, H. Marschner ... Robert Schäfer. p. 298.

[5] ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2
.

[6] "When is Beethoven's birthday?". Classic FM. Retrieved 2022-03-22.

[7] ISBN 978-0-8093-0517-9
.

[8] ISBN 978-0-19-816637-5
.

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